I heard that this old man Zhang was chattering before, whoever died in the village, he was keen to help with white affairs, and he was also the number one person in Hewang Village.

Hearing him say this, the smiles on the faces of more than a dozen villagers instantly froze, they looked at each other in a daze, and they all knelt down.

"Uncle Zhang, this fish ...... How do you know this fish? ”

Kowtowed three times, and the thin man who was laughing and talking about whether to braise fish or eat hot pot was obviously not convinced, and his mouth was chattering.

"Humph! Of course I did! ”

Several others seemed interested.

"Uncle Zhang, can you tell us about it? What a time it was! ”

Zhang Laohan waved his hand: "Let's send it back to the Yellow River first!" You guys...... You almost got into trouble! You know? As he spoke, he gestured to a dozen young people.

Zhang Laohan's words still have a lot of weight in the hearts of these dozen or so people, and just now they were discussing that it was a steamed braised hot pot, and now they are all obediently holding shovels and hoes, digging a ditch, and bringing the water over first.

I'm also rushing to help.

While pushing the big fish into the water, I noticed a strange thing.

Just now I was also strange, the neck of this fish has a ring of flesh, the meat ring also seems to be covered with rust-like spots, at this time I touched the meat ring when I pushed the fish with both hands, and suddenly a cool hard feeling came, and at the same time felt that the surface of the meat ring was very rough, I was puzzled, and scratched twice with my fingers, and the scalp exploded in an instant.

Where is this like patina, it is clearly a real patina, and the meat ring I thought just now was not a meat ring, but a huge bronze ring. I don't know who put it on this fish, it should have been some years, and it has become one with the fish at this time.

No wonder Zhang Laohan said just now that this kind of fish is called copper-headed Arhat, it seems that there is a reason for the origin of this name, at this time I don't understand ten thousand people in my heart: who is it, and how did he get the bronze ring on the neck of the fish?

I pulled the bronze ring on the fish's neck twice again with my hand, and as a layer of black slime on the surface was wiped off by my hand, I saw some vague symbols on the bronze ring, but the bronze ring was so rusty that I couldn't make out whether these symbols were words or graphics.

It reminds me of a report I read on Gonzo.com a few years ago.

It is also said that it happened on the side of the Yellow River, and the time and time are not detailed. A fisherman caught a turtle the size of a pot lid, and if you look closely, there are dozens of strange symbols carved on its back.

The fishermen traced the figure on the turtle's shell and released it.

Later, a historian accidentally saw the graphics depicted by fishermen, and was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, saying that this was the "Luo Shu" used by Dayu when he controlled the water. Of course, I believe that this story is made up, but all myths, fairy tales, or ghost stories are not made up for no reason.

Someone must have caught a turtle with a symbol carved on its back in the river, and someone would have made up this story.

In a panic, I quickly took out my mobile phone and took a few photos, thinking that Wu Jinghan was a graduate student studying the ancient folk culture of the Yellow River, and maybe she knew something.

More than a dozen people worked for more than an hour before pushing the copper-headed Arhat. Entering the Yellow River, it shook itself and swam into the deep water. Several villagers also noticed the bronze ring on the neck of the big fish just now, and they were all amazed.

After a busy time, several people were out of breath, and when they sat on the river bank to rest, the thin man brought up what had just happened again.

At this time, the expression on Zhang Laohan's face was very relaxed, he leisurely lit a cigarette and took a puff, and slowly spit it out, his eyes were always staring at the boiling Yellow River, not knowing what to think.

"Since you want to hear it, then I'll tell you about it!"

This happened in 1998, exactly 20 years ago, and for Chinese over the age of 30, when they mention 1998, the first thing that comes to mind is the widespread floods.

In 1998, Heilongjiang, Yellow River, Huai River, Yangtze River, Pearl River...... All the water was full, and for a time the whole people had to be soldiers for flood relief, and the mighty scene was shocking.

In that year, a lot of strange things happened across the country, not to mention anything else, let's talk about this area of Hewang Village.

At that time, a few fishermen in the village caught a black strange fish the size of a calf in the river, as for such a large water, how the fish was caught on the boat, Zhang Laohan did not say, and he probably did not know.

The fishermen, who had never seen this fish, also noticed the bronze ring on the fish's neck, and out of curiosity, they cut off the head in order to remove the bronze ring from the fish's neck. Who knew that at this moment, the originally sunny sky suddenly became cloudy, and raindrops the size of corn kernels fell instantly, and at the same time, a strong wind blew.

What's even worse is that the Yellow River suddenly burst into waves, the waves were more than a meter high, and in less than ten minutes, several fishing boats capsized, and the big fish with its head cut off and the strange bronze ring also fell into the river.

At that time, four or five fishermen died, and when they survived, they were frightened into a cold sweat, because those who advocated cutting off the head of the big fish were all drowned in the river, and those who survived were against it.

Zhang Laohan was also present at that time.

In the following days, heavy rain continued to fall, and the river embankments in Henan, Shandong and other places were washed away, causing great losses.

Later, Zhang Laohan and a few of them visited a master, saying that it was a master, but it was only an evaluation in the fishermen's circle, that was an old fisherman in his nineties, who had caught fish for most of his life, and it was said that at the age of seventy-five, he caught a talking carp, and since then he has opened his eyes, and then he stayed at home to tell people's fortunes.

They recounted in detail the process of catching a big black fish and cutting off its head, but before they could finish speaking, the old man's face had changed.

The old man said that the fish they caught on the boat was called Bronze Arhat, the son of the Yellow River Dragon King, and that they would be angry if they did this! The old man also told them that the copper-headed Arhat appeared once in about twenty years, and every time it was after a heavy rain, if they accidentally saw it, not only could they not hurt, but they also had to kowtow three times, otherwise the family would suffer bad luck.

Sure enough, soon after, Zhang Laohan's wife and children were hit by a car and died, and from then on he began to be keen on the "white things" in the village.

Zhang Laohan smoked three or four cigarettes in a row before he finished talking about this, such a mysterious thing, I don't know whether to believe it or not, this time it is different from the previous feeling, although I still feel that there are no ghosts and gods in the world in my heart, but how to explain such a big fish, especially the bronze ring on its neck?

This bronze ring looks some years old, and it should be an antiquity.